Quote by Thomas Friedman

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Summary

This quote suggests the contrast between the glamorous and exciting life of rock stars, who are often associated with parties and wild adventures, and the more serious and mundane life of the speaker. While rock stars are given room keys, which represent a sense of freedom and adventure, the speaker is indicated to have a more professional and conventional lifestyle, represented by receiving business cards. This quote highlights the disparity in experiences and perceptions between those who lead extraordinary lives and those who live more ordinary ones.

Topics

Business

By Thomas Friedman

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Ameri

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

Health

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

Self Respect

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

Work

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it i

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Truth

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avaric

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

Michel de Montaigne

Greed

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Ye

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Decisions

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Anthony Bourdain

Light Beautiful Day You Dinner Me

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you wher

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Children

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Work

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the s

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Parenting

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of thin

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science

Conservation